Heeding to the call of unity, 24 separatist leaders on Wednesday turned up at a meeting convened by former Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umer Farooq to arrive at a broader consensus before taking a final decision on the Centre's offer for talks.

Mirwaiz had called the meeting in his capacity as a religious leader and not as Hurriyat executive member. "Being the Hurriyat's founder chairman, it is his (mirwaiz's) endeavour to see the separatist camp as one unit," Islam said.

Jamaat-e-Islami chief Syed Nazir Kashani and JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik could not attend the meeting due to personal reasons. Kashani has met with an accident and the JKLF is busy with the death anniversary of its leader Sheikh Hamid, Islam said.